Hi,
ok, after nearly 5 hours of investigation, it seems that the new priority-system isn´t working as expected and I would explain why:
The VPILOT-3rd party scenery is only available via MarketPlace, so it´s included in the Official-family (means in the Official/OneStore folder).
The navdata package is not a MarketPlace addon, it will be installed from outside of the sim, so it´s include in the Community-family (means in the Community folder).
The loading order in the sim (very simple and not complete) is now:
- all Official packages first
- all Community package next
You see the ordering (means which package will be loaded when) also in the dev-mode:
That means, the VPILOT scenery will be loaded BEFORE the navdata-packages will be loaded. Ok, normally no problem.
The problem in this special case with MPTO now is, that this airport is not included in the stock scenery of the sim - this airport doesn´t simple exists (when you don´t have installed any 3rd party scenery for MPTO). So, when we see that an airport is missing in the stock scenery of the sim, we add this airport plus the runways that all user can start/land to this airport. It´s a kind of very simple scenery - only the runway with the markers, lights and the navigation facilities - no buildings, taxiways or similar else. Also here, no issue …
BUUUUUT now … you have two different packages with runways included - one from the VPILOT scenery and one from our base-package (because MPTO isn´t included in the sim), the double runways are now the result of this.
Ok, we have the new priority system now … great. So, I have added the VPILOT scenery now between our base package and the navdata package:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<Priorities>
<Package name="fs-base-nav" priority="1"/>
<Package name="navigraph-navdata-base" priority="2"/>
<Package name="vpilotdesigns-scenery-mpto" priority="3"/>
<Package name="navigraph-navdata" priority="4"/>
</Priorities>
That means normally the VIPLOT package overwrite our base package (where the MPTO airport with the runways is included) but exactly that doesn´t work. The VPILOT package will still loaded before, regardless which priority I set.
So, it looks like, that MarketPlace addons can´t be prioritized or it´s a bug in the new re-ordering tool.
I can´t check the scenery itself because the bgl-file is encrypted - so I can´t really say if they have forgotten something to delete but I think it´s more the loading order which results in this issue and not the scenery per se.
In this case, we can´t do anything for the moment because we can´t expect that everyone uses the VPILOT 3rd party scenery, therefore we must include the MPTO runways in our base-package. I will try open a ticket in the MSFS dev-forum with this question - hopefully, I get an answer. We have not the possibility to fix this, sorry.
… and sorry for this long explanation. I know it´s very technical but I have no clue how I can show you this easier.
Cheers,
Richard
